Google has created a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called MusicLM that can produce music in any genre from a text description.
However, the tech giant has chosen against to make the system publicly available due to ethical issues, according to some media reports.
"Whoa, this is bigger than ChatGPT to me. Google almost solved music generation, I'd say," Keunwoo Choi, an AI Scientist at Gaudio Lab, Tweeted on Friday.
Although MusicLM wouldn't be the first generative AI system for music, it is the first to create songs with "high-fidelity" and complicated composition.
The algorithm can produce songs that make sense for descriptions of "substantial complexity" after being trained on a dataset of 280,000 hours of music.
The system can build on existing melodies, whether they are whistled, hummed, sung, or played on an instrument.
It can also take a series of sequentially written descriptions and turn them into a musical "story" or narrative, according to Google researchers.
Additionally, MusicLM can be directed by a combination of a picture and a caption, or it can produce music that is "played" by a certain kind of instrument in a particular style.
Although the system can technically synthesize vocals, the results are far from ideal and have problems like distorted samples.
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